Bastardization Of Higher Education Summary
Prof. Swiheart Michael Cox
Sociology
The Bastardization of Higher Education
The entire video hits on the privatization of universities and how they are becoming mcdonaldized to the point that they are pushing students through just for the dollar signs instead of the reason for higher education. The video is a direct conflict between these pop up universities and schools that have rich history such as “ivy league” or traditional universities. Most of these newer universities are a convenience in that they are mainly on line instead of the traditional class room setting and these for profit universities are accelerated instead of taking the full time to earn a degree and actually retaining the information. From the view …show more content…
People are so ready to accept that there is a fast, convenient, mcdonaldized approach to a good education that they do not stop to take a look at what is actually going on by their educational institution taking short cuts and skipping vital parts of the learning process. The sum of the parts, being from students perpetuating the cycle, to the staff being paid to chop the curriculum, to the owners and investors lying that they are prestigious; only helps in stretching this shadow of schooling out to boundless limits. Though all of these pieces play a vital role, they are not the only ones to blame. In my opinion the biggest culprit for driving these schools into existence are the countless amounts of employers now requiring a piece of paper to do the same job that some people have been doing, with proper training, for years and years with little less than a high school diploma. It is a shame that inflation touches every aspect of our lives, from a gallon of gas reaching four dollars a gallon to basic laborers now being required to have an associate’s degree or …show more content…
It seems that since the beginning of the semester we have been primed to look at our country from a new prospective and to see what is really going on with the world that we are a part of and have helped to create in our complacency. Though I have been on a soap box for a very long time about all of these issues that are arising in our society today, I am extremely grateful to hear that someone else shares my views on much of the goings on in today’s society. It is becoming more and more prevalent that modern science has gotten the “chaos theory” right to a fault, everything in any state is constantly moving from a position of order to a more natural form of chaos. According to Marxist.com: chaos takes a dialectical view of nature, meaning that many points in any orderly configuration is on the edge of chaos, and a small push in any direction could have dire consequences, the example used from the site is “a ball balanced on the top of a hill, when pushed, would not roll slightly but instead would completely topple down the hill”. In any case the fact that our nation along with many other countries all around the world are moving ever closer to the proverbial edge has me in a constant state of paranoia and unease, these reason among others are the reason that I, if you will remember from our first time meeting, have become a “prepper” and will continue to invest in
Sociology
The Bastardization of Higher Education
The entire video hits on the privatization of universities and how they are becoming mcdonaldized to the point that they are pushing students through just for the dollar signs instead of the reason for higher education. The video is a direct conflict between these pop up universities and schools that have rich history such as “ivy league” or traditional universities. Most of these newer universities are a convenience in that they are mainly on line instead of the traditional class room setting and these for profit universities are accelerated instead of taking the full time to earn a degree and actually retaining the information. From the view …show more content…
People are so ready to accept that there is a fast, convenient, mcdonaldized approach to a good education that they do not stop to take a look at what is actually going on by their educational institution taking short cuts and skipping vital parts of the learning process. The sum of the parts, being from students perpetuating the cycle, to the staff being paid to chop the curriculum, to the owners and investors lying that they are prestigious; only helps in stretching this shadow of schooling out to boundless limits. Though all of these pieces play a vital role, they are not the only ones to blame. In my opinion the biggest culprit for driving these schools into existence are the countless amounts of employers now requiring a piece of paper to do the same job that some people have been doing, with proper training, for years and years with little less than a high school diploma. It is a shame that inflation touches every aspect of our lives, from a gallon of gas reaching four dollars a gallon to basic laborers now being required to have an associate’s degree or …show more content…
It seems that since the beginning of the semester we have been primed to look at our country from a new prospective and to see what is really going on with the world that we are a part of and have helped to create in our complacency. Though I have been on a soap box for a very long time about all of these issues that are arising in our society today, I am extremely grateful to hear that someone else shares my views on much of the goings on in today’s society. It is becoming more and more prevalent that modern science has gotten the “chaos theory” right to a fault, everything in any state is constantly moving from a position of order to a more natural form of chaos. According to Marxist.com: chaos takes a dialectical view of nature, meaning that many points in any orderly configuration is on the edge of chaos, and a small push in any direction could have dire consequences, the example used from the site is “a ball balanced on the top of a hill, when pushed, would not roll slightly but instead would completely topple down the hill”. In any case the fact that our nation along with many other countries all around the world are moving ever closer to the proverbial edge has me in a constant state of paranoia and unease, these reason among others are the reason that I, if you will remember from our first time meeting, have become a “prepper” and will continue to invest in